Community Justice Assistance Division

Who We Serve: Community Supervision & Corrections Departments

Community supervision and corrections departments (CSCDs) supervise and help rehabilitate offenders who are sentenced to community supervision by local courts. The 121 CSCDs in Texas are organized within judicial districts and serving 254 counties.

Community supervision officers assess each offender's risk/needs using a standard assessment tool and then use the results to design an appropriate supervision plan. The plan includes the conditions stipulated by the courts when the offender is sentenced.

Some offenders are confined temporarily in residential facilities. Others are not confined, but must report to their community supervision officers at intervals determined by the courts and based on the offender’s risk/needs assessment.

Although CSCDs receive funding from TDCJ-CJAD, they are not part of the division. They are organized within local judicial districts, from which they receive office space, equipment and other forms of support. Supervision department employees work for the judicial district. TDCJ-CJAD employees work for the state.